Historical Adventure Tour Warsaw Spies: The Heroes and the Beasts Activity - Warsaw Travel Guide

Overview

This tour will make you learn about Warsaw and some of the most important heroes of the World War II and communism, such as:
- Witold Pilecki, the only volunteer to Auschwitz
- Kazimierz Leski, who in the guise of a Wehrmacht general obtained secret documents of the Atlantic Wall
- Krystyna Skarbek, known as "Churchill's favourite spy" or
- mathematicians who broke the Enigma code.

Not only will you learn their stories, but also you will see some of the most emblematic sites, such as:
- Krasinski Square, with the Warsaw Rising Monument and the Field Cathedral of the Polish Army
- Bank Square
- Wojska Polskiego Avenue, where Witold Pilecki was arrested by the Nazi Germans
- Pilsudski Square, with the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
- Trzech Krzyzy Square
- Rozbrat St
- Rakowiecka St, seat of an infamous communist politcial prison.

You will learn to read a "city code", immortalized in Warsaw's layout, architecture, decorations, which can be useful in the future to understand other cities.